Improved clothes-drier for stove-pipes



i@ mi @hline VLAvvIuINCE B. WATERMAN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS B. KELLY, or SAME PLACE.

Leiters .Patent No. 97,736, dated .December 7, 189.

IMPRO'V'ED CLOTHESJBRIER IE'IR. STOVE-PIPES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, LAWRENCE B. WATERMAN, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain mew and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers;`aud I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference 'being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speci lheathen, 4inwhich y 1 Figure l is a `,"top view.

lligure2, a partial vertical section. My invention relates to-that 'class of clothes-driers designed-tube used upon stove-pipes, and consists in f making a collar 'for the pipe, to be secured thereto by a thumb-screw, the collar having a ange at the bottom, on which a largercollaror ring rests, and being `so iitted as to move readily around the inner collar, the outer collar being so constructed as-tdholdthe clothes-bars, neither of the collars having lany joint,

` t 'lo enable others skilled inthe art to makeand use myinventionh proceed `to describe its `construction and operation. l

Azreprescnts a` metallic collar, which may be cast from any suitable metal, being in diameter adapted to the sizeof the stove-pipe with which itis to be used, and having a flange, u', at the bottom, and a thumbscrew, c; f B is a disk or ring'of `metahhaviuga. vertical flange, h, iig. 2, which fits over the collar A, the ange'h restp l. ing on the auge a, and iitting somewhat loosely, so

l* i that `B may readily be turned around A. l

edge ofdisk B, `on which single articles can be hung. l v

The openings g` are ornamental. In use, the collar A is placed upon the pipe, pass-` ing over the same, and is secured thereto in any de' sired position -by means of the thumb-screw c. Disk B is then placed over `the collar 1A, h resting on a. The arms, e are then inserted in the openings f.

The several parts are Whole, having no joints, and requiring no devices to securethe parts together.

The whole device canv be raised orlowered upon the pipe by the use of the thumb-screw.`

The disk B can be easily revolved around thecollar Afand thus the several arms e can be brought, from time to time, over the stove where there is the most heat. l f

, When all the arms are removed,l a number of articles can still be hung upon the points d.

' In fig. 2 ot`- the drawings, the disk B is only shown on one side of the collar A. p

What I Vclaim as my improvement, is,- v v The :,i-rrangement of the collar A with its `flange a and thumb-screw c, in combination with the disk or ring B, with its projections d and slots f, as shown and described.

Witnesses: LAWRENCE B. WATERMAN.

E. A. WEST, 0. W. BOND,

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